2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

[HeelYeah2012]

Not that it will matter to you, but for anyone else to may be curious -

Once the state has a prisoner in its custody, it is responsible for providing for that prisoners needs, including medical care.

Gender reassignment can be recommended as a treatment for cases of severe gender dysphoria, which has been demonstrated in the relevant medical literature to have high success rates in alleviating the major symptoms of gender dysphoria, including depression and suicidal ideation.

If you want to, you can make an argument for not providing prisoners with medical care. But I don't know what the objection to providing this medical care would be, and how it would be different than other prescribed treatments, other than naked transphobia.

Or are you going to pretend to be worried about the sanctity of women's prison intermural sports?

So what you’re saying is, you support taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners?

 

[RockyMtnHoo]

So what you’re saying is, you support taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners?

I’d love to see some data on how often this actually happens and how small the cost is if it does.

I’d be willing to bet it’s a fraction of a percent of the federal government’s paperclip budget.

 

[HeelYeah2012]

(Cont’d)

“… Privately, though, Democratic strategists concede that the transgender attacks are taking a toll in some races. The most aired Trump ad in recent weeks was rated as one of his campaign’s more effective in September in some Democratic testing, according to results reviewed by The Times.

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Attacks on what Mr. Trump calls “transgender insanity” have reliably been one of his loudest applause lines at his rallies. But now Mr. Trump has shifted significant resources to move that message far beyond his most fervent fans.

In the last three weeks, Mr. Trump’s campaign alone has spent more than $15.5 million on two television ads that resurface comments Ms. Harris made in 2019 describing her support for policies that “every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access” to gender-affirming surgery.

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Republican strategists said the focus on transgender women and girls in sports had been particularly effective with a key group of voters the party has hemorrhaged support from in recent years: college-educated suburban women.

“One of the things you see in the focus groups is the moms get really visibly angry on this issue,” said Jim McLaughlin, a Republican pollster who works for Mr. Trump and other Republican campaigns. “It’s a fairness issue. They don’t want their daughters to lose a scholarship, and they don’t want them to get hurt.”

Those are some of the recurring themes in the ads. …”

Thanks for sharing. And yes, it’s easy to see why this ad Trump has been running would be effective in the suburbs.

 

[Enigma94]

So what you’re saying is, you support taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners?

What I’m saying is that almost every person who is applauding this at a Trump rally has never even seen a transgender person. It is an irrelevant aspect of life for the vast majority of the population yet MAGA treats it like it’s the most important issue facing our country today. You are being manipulated.

 

[HeelYeah2012]

I’d love to see some data on how often this actually happens and how small the cost is if it does.

I’d be willing to bet it’s a fraction of a percent of the federal government’s paperclip budget.

Totally agree. But giving that as the response to my question reads very similarly to the same type of non-answer response Democrats give when they get asked where in a pregnancy they draw the line on elective abortions.

“It rarely happens, so what’s the big deal” isn’t good enough. A lot of really bad stuff is rare.

 

[Enigma94]

Totally agree. But giving that as the response to my question reads very similarly to the same type of non-answer response Democrats give when they get asked where in a pregnancy they draw the line on elective abortions.

“It rarely happens, so what’s the big deal” isn’t good enough. A lot of really bad stuff is rare.

What? The majority of posters here agree with Roe.

 

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[CFordUNC]

I'll be completely honest. Perhaps the thing that I appreciate the most out of today's Republicans is how deeply open and vulnerable they allow themselves to be in letting the rest of us know how piss-down-your-leg-shit-your-drawers terrified they are at all times of 39 week elective abortions, illegal immigrants, and transgender people all jumping out from behind the nearest bush and forcing them to announce their pronouns. You have to admire that kind of honesty and humility to be able to face down those fears every moment of every day and keep soldiering on in this hellscape broken country in which we live. Thank you, brave Republican foot soldiers, for protecting us all from rampaging third-trimester mothers who want their babies ripped from their wombs and from the transgender illegal alien inmates populating our prisons and draining our public coffers.

 

[RockyMtnHoo]

I'll be completely honest. Perhaps the thing that I appreciate the most out of today's Republicans is how deeply open and vulnerable they allow themselves to be in letting the rest of us know how piss-down-your-leg-shit-your-drawers terrified they are at all times of 39 week elective abortions, illegal immigrants, and transgender people all jumping out from behind the nearest bush and forcing them to announce their pronouns. You have to admire that kind of honesty and humility to be able to face down those fears every moment of every day and keep soldiering on in this hellscape broken country in which we live. Thank you, brave Republican foot soldiers, for protecting us all from rampaging third-trimester mothers who want their babies ripped from their wombs and from the transgender illegal alien inmates populating our prisons and draining our public coffers.

Remember…these are the problems “real” flag waving Americans are worried about.

 

[CFordUNC]

Remember…these are the problems “real” flag waving Americans are worried about.

Man alive, I'll tell ya. If this is the stuff these people obsess over when we are living in one of the greatest times of economic prosperity in the history of our country, low crime, and relative worldwide peace, you've got to wonder what they're going to become transfixed by when the shit actually hits the fan one day.

 

[dukeman92]

Totally agree. But giving that as the response to my question reads very similarly to the same type of non-answer response Democrats give when they get asked where in a pregnancy they draw the line on elective abortions.

“It rarely happens, so what’s the big deal” isn’t good enough. A lot of really bad stuff is rare.

It’s definitely a helluva lot more rare than say… school shootings… but we wouldn’t want to pubs to care about actual issues.

 

[Healing]

Is someone spraying spittle all over this thread? Or is the thread broke? I keep seeing a bolded title but few new posts.

 

[JCTarheel82]

What I’m saying is that almost every person who is applauding this at a Trump rally has never even seen a transgender person. It is an irrelevant aspect of life for the vast majority of the population yet MAGA treats it like it’s the most important issue facing our country today. You are being manipulated.

Agree with the general theme of this post but have a quibble that makes the message even more powerful, imo. I would wager that the majority of the population (even MAGAs) has encountered a transgender person at some point in their lives... and they didn't even notice. As you said, the transgender community has zero impact on the vast majority of Americans and it's abhorrent that bigotry toward this population is a key plank of the Republican party platform. I guess it makes effective fear porn for those afraid of their own shadows though.

The only people that this issue affects in any significant way is the transgender community itself. Everyone should be free to be who they are without fear of prejudice and discrimination. I have a close family member who is transgender and she didn't feel comfortable coming out until she was almost 30 years old. I hate that for her and it shouldn't have to be that way.

 

[nycfan]

Is someone spraying spittle all over this thread? Or is the thread broke? I keep seeing a bolded title but few new posts.

Not having the same issue. What is the last post you see prior to your post?

 

[05C40]

I vote early simply because it would really suck if something happened to me on or shortly before Election Day and I couldn’t vote because of it.

In 2008, I voted early because between the start of early voting and election day, I was undergoing an operation that had a 10-day survival rate that not nearly as high as I would have liked. I was really bummed when I found out that the election folks actually check to determine if early voters survived until election day. But I did survive, and on Election night my brother and I stayed up until around 4 am, despite the election have been called for Obama earlier. We were staying up to see in Obama would carry NC. HE DID!

 

[SnoopRob]

Is someone spraying spittle all over this thread? Or is the thread broke? I keep seeing a bolded title but few new posts.

Do you have anyone on super ignore? If you do and there are posts by that person or posts replying to that person, the thread title will show bold but you won't be able to see any new posts. Nor will the thread title go back to normal after you visit the thread because you aren't seeing the post(s) that cause it to be bold.

 

[Icky Mettle]

In 2008, I voted early because between the start of early voting and election day, I was undergoing an operation that had a 10-day survival rate that not nearly as high as I would have liked. I was really bummed when I found out that the election folks actually check to determine if early voters survived until election day. But I did survive, and on Election night my brother and I stayed up until around 4 am, despite the election have been called for Obama earlier. We were staying up to see in Obama would carry NC. HE DID!

So glad you survived, my friend.

 

[Zoo_View]

What I’m saying is that almost every person who is applauding this at a Trump rally has never even seen a transgender person. It is an irrelevant aspect of life for the vast majority of the population yet MAGA treats it like it’s the most important issue facing our country today. You are being manipulated.

I’d say they’ve seen trans people…..they just don’t know they’ve seen a trans person.

 

[Kingpin]

I think it's fun to vote on election day when all of the attention is on the election and you feel like you're part of a bigger event.

But it's also a pain to make a random Tuesday work and so I vote early nearly every time.

If the US made voting easy by making the Election Day a national holiday, I’d love voting on that day. But of course we do not, because….??? ….too many of the wrong people might actually vote. So I prefer to vote early in person.